(ya) booookkkksss!!!! & other recs
Hey lords and ladies. Here's an amazing post from ontd. 15 pages of YA book recs featuring female protagonists. Go ontd! Even though the comm is ripe for/with wank I love that there is also a (small?, persistent) strong presence of feminists on there willing to educate/debate, and we get posts like this that call out the misogyny in a book that result in people listing their favorite books with strong girls/women.
-Sabriel by Garth Nix
-author Tamora Pierce
-The Hunger Games
-The Westing Game (dunno if it's female-protagonist, but listed as "classic YA" - like -Mixed Up Files of Basil E. Frankweiler!!!!)
-want to read The Giver again.
-series 1 800 Where Are You by Meg Cabot
-Sloppy Firsts series by Megan McCafferty
-back to Francesca Lia Block- The Wasteland, Dangerous Angels, The Rose and the Beast
-remember Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson???!?! I own it I THINK. somebody says her new book WINTERGIRLS is good as well.
-Redwall series? about mice I think???
-Juniper by Monica Furlong (and Abhorsen trilogy by her??)
-omg reread His Dark Materials (Golden Compass)
-The House on Mango Street (written in vignettes)
-reread EVERWORLD (K.A. Applegate)
-reread Catherine, Called Birdy!!!!!!!! by Karen Cushman
-Chocolate Wars (not fem-protag) err I don't rmb what went on in it, it got banned in US for a while.
-Walk Two Moons, by Sharon Creech, along w/ Chasing Redbird
-Perks of Being a Wallflower
-Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voight
-Judy Blume's, Are You There God? It's Me Margaret.
-Born Confused by Tanuja Desai Hidier
-The Royal Diaries series, Cleopatra VII, also one about a girl on the Titanic
-Youth in Revolt by C.D. Payne
-King Dork by Frank Portman (this & above not fem-protag I think)
-Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey
-Running out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix
-The Basic Eight by Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket), about murder, skipping classes & being a neurotic intellectual
-A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb
-The Secret of the Old Clock, 60's Nancy Drew
-A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
-Bridge to Terabithia
-The Realm of Possibility, by David Levithan - rmb!!!??? about queer boys.
-Wayside School is Falling Down!! Louis Sachar
-Half Magic by Edward Eager (about a magic ring that grants only halves of wishes so careful and that)
-The Time WARP TRIO!!!!!!!
-Dealing with Dragons, Patricia C. Wrede
-The Silent Storm, Sherry Garland
-A Ring of Endless Light, Madeline L'engle
-Julie of the Wolves, Jean Craighead George
and
Maru in Michigan, adorable dog blog. So very fucking adorable, fucking seriously. Pics look good, dog looks good, some good setups. part of a Japanese blog ring that ranks popular dog blogs.
and!
Vogue by Luminosity, it came out in 2007 so you might've seen it before. You don't need to have watched 300 to get/enjoy it, and the editing is quite beautiful on its own. It's a mashup of 300 with Madonna's "Vogue." Don't judge it by the weirdly crappy screengrab? Uhh I don't recall a red rectangle appearing anywhere in the video. Her summary:
Bite me, Frank Miller.
-Sabriel by Garth Nix
-author Tamora Pierce
-The Hunger Games
-The Westing Game (dunno if it's female-protagonist, but listed as "classic YA" - like -Mixed Up Files of Basil E. Frankweiler!!!!)
-want to read The Giver again.
-series 1 800 Where Are You by Meg Cabot
-Sloppy Firsts series by Megan McCafferty
-back to Francesca Lia Block- The Wasteland, Dangerous Angels, The Rose and the Beast
-remember Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson???!?! I own it I THINK. somebody says her new book WINTERGIRLS is good as well.
-Redwall series? about mice I think???
-Juniper by Monica Furlong (and Abhorsen trilogy by her??)
-omg reread His Dark Materials (Golden Compass)
-The House on Mango Street (written in vignettes)
-reread EVERWORLD (K.A. Applegate)
-reread Catherine, Called Birdy!!!!!!!! by Karen Cushman
-Chocolate Wars (not fem-protag) err I don't rmb what went on in it, it got banned in US for a while.
-Walk Two Moons, by Sharon Creech, along w/ Chasing Redbird
-Perks of Being a Wallflower
-Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voight
-Judy Blume's, Are You There God? It's Me Margaret.
-Born Confused by Tanuja Desai Hidier
-The Royal Diaries series, Cleopatra VII, also one about a girl on the Titanic
-Youth in Revolt by C.D. Payne
-King Dork by Frank Portman (this & above not fem-protag I think)
-Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey
-Running out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix
-The Basic Eight by Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket), about murder, skipping classes & being a neurotic intellectual
-A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb
-The Secret of the Old Clock, 60's Nancy Drew
-A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
-Bridge to Terabithia
-The Realm of Possibility, by David Levithan - rmb!!!??? about queer boys.
-Wayside School is Falling Down!! Louis Sachar
-Half Magic by Edward Eager (about a magic ring that grants only halves of wishes so careful and that)
-The Time WARP TRIO!!!!!!!
-Dealing with Dragons, Patricia C. Wrede
-The Silent Storm, Sherry Garland
-A Ring of Endless Light, Madeline L'engle
-Julie of the Wolves, Jean Craighead George
and
Maru in Michigan, adorable dog blog. So very fucking adorable, fucking seriously. Pics look good, dog looks good, some good setups. part of a Japanese blog ring that ranks popular dog blogs.
and!
Vogue by Luminosity, it came out in 2007 so you might've seen it before. You don't need to have watched 300 to get/enjoy it, and the editing is quite beautiful on its own. It's a mashup of 300 with Madonna's "Vogue." Don't judge it by the weirdly crappy screengrab? Uhh I don't recall a red rectangle appearing anywhere in the video. Her summary:
Bite me, Frank Miller.